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LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers'
angry tapir writes "LinkedIn is shutting down Intro, its recently launched mobile service for connecting people over email, that raised security concerns. Intro was launched last October and described at the time as a 'dream come true for hackers' The service was made for the iPhone, and was designed to grab LinkedIn profile information and insert it into emails received on phones. The service displayed that information to the recipient from the email's sender if the sender was also on LinkedIn."
That one day, my four little children...will one day be able to use Slashdot without the beta layout.
The little utility it had at one time was ruined when they decided to sell your information to salespeople so they can "link" with you and try to sell you stuff.
One thing I don't need is more salespeople contacting me and wanting to sell me stuff.
Also their random-recommendations has been a joke from day 1.
I have to ask why anybody even uses the service any more.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
...and also removing any /. RSS feeds on my Web portals, with a message explaining the reason for the change to users. http://soylentnews.org/ is the beginning of the new /. alternative
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
We are contributors of stories and comments and "News for Nerds, stuff that matters".
Without us Slashdot is just another lame webscraper.
If the people of Dice want "Slashdot" to become a dead name like "AOL", well go ahead; you're doing a fine job. Just don't act surprised in a few years when you're sitting on a worthless name wondering what the he'll happened. It's not like you weren't warned.
LinkedIn sucks hardcore balls to begin with. People deserve whatever compromises they get if they use it.
A boycott of slashdot (a 'slashcott') will begin at midnight tonight, and last until midnight on February 17th.
Plans to replace Slashdot's user interface were first announced in October, 2013. The initial announcement garnered extensive comment, almost exclusively negative. Concerns were raised about the style and the substance of the 'Beta' design. In style, use of images and whitespace meant lower data density and difficult reading. In substance, it became difficult to read the context of comments, or to simply read through a story with more than a dozen comments. User comments are central to what Slashdot is, and many users thought that the Beta design would seriously impede the flow of conversations.
And so, when it was announced on February 5th that the move over to the Beta design was beginning, users protested the change. For a day, story comment sections were almost completely filled with comments about the plans for Beta.
Then, on February 6th, Slashdot responded and made concessions. They acknowledged some problems with Beta, and pledged to slow down the switchover.
The reason given for the switchover to Beta is to have a site that is "more accessible and shareable by a wider audience". For many users, those ill-defined reasons to not justify discarding a discussion system that has evolved over more than fifteen years.
Users who still demand that plans for Beta be cancelled will be taking part in a Slaschott between February 10th and 17th, and will not be commenting on or visting Slashdot.
In the meantime, alternatives to Slashdot are being established.
Many are going to comp.misc on Usenet. For free access to NNTP, see eternal-september.org, which will give you access to comp.misc, as well as other treasures like comp.lang.c
Others are setting up a a web based alternative to Slashdot, and they could use help. See soylentnews.org for more details.
For a Free Slashdot - Join the Slashcott!
This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into s site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it. I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
Be seeing you.
Have a good week off, Slashdot -- see you next Monday.
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LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers'
They shutdown the site?
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